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Stop The Glazer-Revis Nonsense

Joe hears outlandish Bucs theories all the time and Joe got hit with this one quite a bit last night: It’s Team Glazer driving the ditching of Darrelle Revis so they can save money.

Joe can’t believe how many bongs must be in use for Joe to get peppered with Team-Glazer-hate email on this subject and to read such nonsense in the comments section here.

First, Team Glazer may or may not have a payroll budget for the 2014 season (there’s not much freedom with it anyway given the NFL labor agreement and its mandatory spending clauses), but why exactly would Team Glazer care who Jason Licht and Lovie Smith decide to pay? It’s preposterous to think Team Glazer has it out for Revis or is trying to hoard cash by getting rid of him.

It’s Team Glazer who would feel the ongoing backlash of a Revis ousting. Team Glazer and staff have to answer to all the paying Bucs customers, especially the big spenders, and explain why the Bucs don’t need the best cornerback in football. That’s a painful pill when you just sold Revis on the fan base and marketed him in a big way. Hell, they’re even selling new Revis jerseys over Mike Glennon jerseys.

Lastly, Team Glazer surely busted out the good bubbly the day they hired Lovie Smith. What a relief for an ownership group that just stomached five seasons of Raheem Morris and Greg Schiano. Joe’s certain Team Glazer put its complete trust in Lovie and felt damn good about doing that and getting out of the way.

Joe sees no scenario by which Team Glazer is involved in the Revis maneuvers — other than to say, ‘whatever you wish, Lovie.”

Joe I guess these troops who are saying the Glazers need/want to save money missed the financial page report that Nike signed a Billion dollar agreement with Manchester United that will pay the Glazers a $100 million a year for ten years. Now this is in addition to all their other income from all sources.

Now I admit that they may lose money compared to last year on the Bucs Jersey front, but that money that starts next year makes up for a lot of Revis and jerseys.

I guess the Glazers need too pay Nike too for awesome new uniforms they made. I thought the plan was to build around Revis but that’s lie number one. I figured the Glazers were serious about winning again with the hiring of Lovie but lie number two, if you want to win Super Bowls you gotta have real good players not get rid of them. Wonder why the bucs are the laughing stock of the NFL.

Glazer kids would do everyone a favor by selling. But with them at the helm, what exactly do we have to show us we should believe in them? We might hit a full decade without the playoffs. Dumping Gruden was the beginning of a horrible slide that seemingly might not end. We’re back to being a laughstock after spending a decade getting that stench off of us.

I wish I could save myself the agony of being a life long Bucs fan and just find a new team to root for but since I can’t bring myself to do that, I just have to continue to endure the mediocrity. I really hope that this free agency and Draft give me some optimism but I am very skeptical at this point. A rookie CB is not going to be an upgrade. I may have to take a sick day today because I am feeling nauseous about this possible release of Revis. We had better at least get some good free agents on both sides of the line of scrimmage. No names and average players is not going to have an impact. We are not the Patriots who seem to be able to get production from no namers.

You’re right Joe.
Team Glazer has a stellar job with this team since 2002
so there’s no reason to doubt them or their motives at all.
Heck, it’s not like they’re just going through the motions.
I firmly believe everything they say.

Jerry Says:
March 11th, 2014 at 9:18 am
No team has EVER won the Super Bowl by rebuilding through free agency. We are going to use all this money and be in cap hell in a few years and have nothing but losing records to show for it.

How about what Gruden brought in for our Super Bowl run? That offense was totally reworked with veteran free agents on the offensive side of the ball.